Symposium on Geochemistry of the Earth's Surface (GES-9)

Science Program

Geochemical Landscapes in the Anthropocene

Welcoming reception: Thursday, June 2, 2011, 5-7pm, beer and wine may be served
Conference: Friday, June 3 – Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Optional field trips: morning of Monday, June 6, 2011

• Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory, led by Suzanne Anderson
• Rocky Mountain National Park, led by David Clow

Conference banquet, included in registration fee: Monday, June 6, 2011
Meeting ends: late afternoon, Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Conference Program

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Thursday, June 2

4:30-7 pm Registration University Memorial Center, Room 265
5-7 pm Ice-breaker reception University Memorial Center Terrace

Meeting takes place in the Glenn Miller Ballroom, University Memorial Center

Friday, June 3

7:30-9:30 am Registration University Memorial Center, Ballroom foyer
8:00 am Coffee, light refreshments
8:30-9 am Sigurdur Gislason, Suzanne Anderson Welcome & introduction

Theme 1: Rivers— Landscape Integration

9-9:45 am James Syvitski Global sediment fluxes to the Earth's coastal ocean
9:45-10:30 am Posters and morning refreshments
10:30-11:15 am Eric Oelkers The role of riverine particulate material on the global cycles of the elements
11:15-12 Jean-Dominique Meunier Importance of weathering and human perturbations on the riverine transport of Si
12-1:30 pm Lunch- on your own
1:30-2:15 pm Jérôme Gaillardet The Lesser Antilles, a natural laboratory for erosion studies

Theme 2: Critical Zone Processes

2:15-3 pm Sue Brantley What controls the transformation of bedrock to soil?
3-5 pm Posters and afternoon refreshments

Saturday, June 4

8:00 am Coffee, light refreshments
8:30-9 am GES Senior Keynote-- Bob Berner

Theme 2: Critical Zone Processes (continues)

9-9:45 am François Chabaux U-series isotopes and weathering
9:45-10:30 am Posters and morning refreshments
10:30-11:15 am Kyungsoo Yoo Evolution of hillslope soils: The geomorphic theater and the geochemical play
11:15-12 Mark Hodson Carbon sequestration, dating and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction - the potential of earthworm secreted calcium carbonate
12-1:30 pm Lunch- on your own

Theme 3: Organic Contaminants

1:30-2:15 pm Mark Chappell Solid-phase considerations for the environmental fate of nitrobenzene and triazine munition constituents in soils
2:15-3 pm Thomas Hofstetter Tracking transformation processes of organic micropollutants in aquatic environments
3-5 pm Posters and afternoon refreshments

Sunday, June 5

8-9:00 am Posters and coffee

Theme 3: Organic Contaminants (continues)

9-9:45 am Kristin Schirmer Identifying biological effects of organic contaminants in surface- and groundwater
9:45-10:30 am Posters and morning refreshments

Theme 4: Microbial Geochemistry

10:30-11:15 am Lesley Warren By design: the architecture of microbial redox cycling
11:15-12 Andreas Kappler Arsenic redox transformation by humic substances and Fe minerals
12-1:30 pm Lunch- on your own
1:30-2:15 pm Nathan Yee Geomicrobiology of selenium: Life and death by selenite

Theme 5: Environmental Geochemistry

2:15-3 pm Harald Sverdrup Assessing the sustainable global population and phosphate supply, using a systems dynamics assessment model
3-5 pm Posters and afternoon refreshments

Monday, June 6

Morning- optional field trips or time on your own

Theme 5: Environmental Geochemistry (continues)

1:30-3:30 pm Poster session 2
3:00 pm Afternoon refreshments
3:30-4:15 pm Nikolaos P. Nikolaidis Human impacts on soils: Tipping points and knowledge gaps
4:15-5:00 pm Eric Sundquist Historical influence of soil and water management on sediment and carbon budgets in the United States
6:00 Conference Banquet, Millennium Hotel

Buses will take conferees to and from banquet

Tuesday, June 7

8-9:00 am Posters and coffee

Theme 6: Special session in honor of Bob Berner: Global Geochemical Cycles

9-9:45 am Fred Mackenzie Land-sea C and nutrient fluxes and coastal ocean CO2 exchange and acidification: Past, present and future
9:45-10:30 am Baerbel Hönisch Ocean acidification during the Cenozoic
10:30-12 Posters and morning refreshments
12-1:00 pm Lunch- on your own; GES business meeting in Ballroom
1-1:45 pm Niels Hovius Erosion-driven drawdown of atmospheric carbon dioxide: the organic pathway
1:45-2:30 pm Derek Vance Isotopic tracers of chemical weathering and consequences for marine geochemical budgets
2:30 pm Closing